Marzaroli oscar (23 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Notes from Joe Fisher and Cordelia Oliver. Minor wear to both book and jacket, undecipherable(in meaning) to me, which reads: "To A wee heid o' the steamie", followed by a name and Aug, 1988 date. Small blemish lower down on the same page.…

Reprint. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-torn dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Notes; Photographs from two exhibitions held at Third Eye Centre. Includes bibliography and index. Subjects; Marzaroli, Oscar (1933-1988). Photography, Artistic. Street photography Scotland Glasgow. Glasgow (Scotland) Pictorial works. Glasgow (Scotland) History 20th century Pictorial works. Marzaroli, Oscar (photographer). McIlvanney, William (author). Fisher, Joe. Oliver, Cordelia. Third Eye Centre (Glasgow, Scotland). 1 Kg. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Glasgow, in photographs, has a habit of looking directly back at you. Not posing. Not smoothing its hair. Not pretending the washing has been hidden, the tenements freshly moralised, the children arranged by a civic committee, or the rain asked politely to stay off-camera. It looks back with that particular expression of a city that has had enough of being explained by people who arrived after lunch. Oscar Marzaroli?s Shades of Grey: Glasgow 1956?1987 is a great, weighty act of looking. Not tourism, not nostalgia with a ribbon tied round it, not one of those glossy civic exercises where the difficult bits have been cropped out and replaced with a conference centre. This is Glasgow across three decades of streets, faces, closes, demolition, children, prams, workers, old women at windows, boys with cheekbones and mischief, soot, stone, laughter, hardship, and that peculiar Scottish talent for making endurance look like a form of dry comedy. The title is perfect, because grey here is not dull. Grey is weather, tenement wall, pavement, coat, smoke, winter light, institutional paint, a moral atmosphere, and sometimes the only colour honest enough for the job. Marzaroli understood that black-and-white photography does not remove colour so much as remove excuses. Once the decorative business is stripped away, you are left with shape, face, gesture, poverty, pride, damage, wit, and the sudden terrible beauty of a child standing in a street that is about to be demolished by progress, which always arrives with a clipboard and a surprisingly poor sense of humour. There is grandeur here, but it is not the official kind. It is not statues and speeches and ?Glasgow the Great Industrial Whatever? with a brass band somewhere out of shot. It is the grandeur of ordinary survival: people leaning in doorways, children playing where planners would later put regret, women carrying shopping with the air of generals returning from a campaign, streets full of lives that no redevelopment scheme could quite itemise. The camera catches a city being lived in before it is rebranded, conserved, flattened, cleaned up, regretted, romanticised, and finally sold back to itself in tasteful monochrome prints. William McIlvanney?s words give the photographs the right sort of company: not explaining them to death, but standing beside them with the necessary intelligence and sorrow. Between Marzaroli?s eye and McIlvanney?s prose, the book becomes less a record than a reckoning. What was lost? What was saved? What did the city endure? And who, exactly, gets to decide when hardship becomes heritage? This is the kind of book that makes ?urban history? sound far too tidy. Cities do not become history neatly. They shed walls, move families, close yards, erase streets, rename wounds, and then later get sentimental about the very things they were in such a hurry to clear away. Shades of Grey catches Glasgow in that uneasy passage: not as ruin porn, not as sentimental working-class theatre, but as a living place full of people who were never merely background. This copy is in Very Good condition, which is almost indecently well-behaved for a book about a city that knew better than to keep itself tidy for strangers. A substantial, evocative photographic volume from Crappy Old Books, for anyone who likes Glasgow, documentary photography, social history, McIlvanney, Marzaroli, or books that quietly remind you that the past was not sepia, not simple, and certainly not waiting around to be made charming.…

Reprint. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-torn dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Notes; Photographs from two exhibitions held at Third Eye Centre. Includes bibliography and index. Subjects; Marzaroli, Oscar (1933-1988). Photography, Artistic. Street photography Scotland Glasgow. Glasgow (Scotland) Pictorial works. Glasgow (Scotland) History 20th century Pictorial works. Marzaroli, Oscar (photographer). McIlvanney, William (author). Fisher, Joe. Oliver, Cordelia. Third Eye Centre (Glasgow, Scotland). 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Marvellous b&w, relief halftone photographs of the City of Glasgow, Scotland, covering the period 1956 to 1987. Photographs by Oscar Marzaroli ; words by William McIlvanney ; notes from Joe Fisher and Cordelia Oliver. Photograph selections and layout: Christopher Carrell (Third Eye Centre) and Oscar Marzaroli, Design and finished artwork: James Hutcheson and Paul Keir. 223, [1] p. : ill., ports., photographs ; 30 cm. Book is a strong Fine. Bright, fresh, unmarked. Tight, square binding, no wear to the cloth. The unclipped dustjacket shows some very light edge wear. A heavy, oversize book - 1.281kg - 23cm by 31cm. Extra postage needed - quote available. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images are available. Shipped well packed. USA postage is usually $6.90 - $9.00 unless extra heavy/large. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight and destination. Postage to anywhere within Canada, can now be approx US$16.00 for weights up to 5kg total - boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate. NOW available - new, considerably lower Trans-Canada rates for many major markets, and, new, considerably lower rates for Overseas destinations. Size: 31cm Tall. Oscar Marzaroli - photographer (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Text by William McIlvanney.B/w plates. Nr fine in VG dw.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. About Very Good 1st Edition hardcover in Fair dustjacket. Clean grey cloth boards with bumped spine ends. Bottom corners well bumped. Some tiny dents to top corners. Top edge lightly foxed. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Price-clipped dustjacket bumped and chipped to spine ends and corners. Some light edge-wear. Please note: This is a large, heavy book which may require additional postage. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages. Illustrated by Oscar Marzaroli (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Reprint. Hardback volume with unclipped dust jacket. 223 pp. Binding firm. Pages are clean with no inscriptions or annotations. Light edge and corner wear to the dust jacket, with a heavier area of creasing (and a small 5mm tear) around the top left corner of the front panel. Size: 12" tall. Weight: 1.2kg. Due to the weight of this book, additional postage costs may be requested for shipping outside the UK. …

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. 223pp. (white and grey spine) 1989 reprint. 4to. large sized. A very good plus, clean, tight and bright copy in like jacket. Original publisher's grey boards - silver embossed to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions after the photographer's work. Slight spotting to the upper fore-edge. No inscriptions. Grey endpapers. Light bumps to the head and tail of the spine. The jacket has been price-clipped - it has some light shelf wear. A very good plus, clean, tight and bright copy of this sought after publication.…

Condizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9781851585922.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket has moderate general wear and no tears. Gift inscription to ffep, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 223pp Size: 225mm x 300mm. Marzaroli, Oscar (photographs) (illustratore). Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 224 pages of great photographs of life and people of Scotland by Marzaroli both book and Jacket Fine cond Just inscription on hals title page. Oscar Marzaroli (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2013 Birlinn large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear, small tape repair to top edge of dustjacket else very good condition.

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with minor edgewear, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 3.0 lbs; Black and white photograph of boys to dust jacket, and title in white and grey lettering; 2014, Birlinn Limited Press; 224 pages; "Waiting for the Magic: The Photographs of Oscar Marzaroli," by Oscar Marzaroli.…

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 3.0 lbs; Black and white photograph of boys to dust jacket, and title in white and grey lettering; 2014, Birlinn Limited Press; 224 pages; "Waiting for the Magic: The Photographs of Oscar Marzaroli," by Oscar Marzaroli.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has a tear. 224pp with b/w photographs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book is in fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. 224pp with b/w photographs.

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 3.0 lbs; Black and white photograph of boys to dust jacket, and title in white and grey lettering; 2014, Birlinn Limited Press; 224 pages; "Waiting for the Magic: The Photographs of Oscar Marzaroli," by Oscar Marzaroli.…

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good in a Good dust jacket; Hardcover; The front of the dust jacket is clean and intact, but the back of the jacket has a watermark to the top and bottom edges (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 3.0 lbs; Black and white photograph of boys to dust jacket, and title in white and grey lettering; 2014, Birlinn Limited Press; 224 pages; "Waiting for the Magic: The Photographs of Oscar Marzaroli," by Oscar Marzaroli.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Hard. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Dust jacket bright and clean, lightly edgeworn, boards clean and tidy, ink inscriptions to head of front pastedown, fep and title page, full page black/white photographs throughout, bright, binding sound. Size: 4to. Marzaroli, Oscar (Photography by) (illustratore). …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2 covers and complete set of 12 photographs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: New.